articles: Word from the Inside

April 28th, 2014

The first priority when recounting the story of rap is to acknowledge the true school OG fathers who inseminated the world with the seeds of genius. The Pioneers were from the Bronx and listened to a lot of Bob Dylan, and Muhammad Ali, and Lou Reed, and Shakespeare, and came up with the idea of rhyming words together.

April 16th, 2014

Wale has given us exclusive access to his archives and we have uncovered this artifact that offers a glimpse inside the rapper’s mind. It is a Mad Libs page he filled out and edited long ago (like a couple years).

April 1st, 2013

From the network that brought you original programming such as Trifetime: Television for Thugs and 24-hour news coverage of the 9/11 Commission’s Testimony from Hip-Hop comes an all new show featuring you, our readers! Let’s tune in…

August 25th, 2010

Lil Kil of Washington D.C.’s the Knockheadz is one of the most sought-after performers in hip-hop today. His solo mixtape, IMAX in the Streetz is a contender for album of the year, even though it is not actually an album. White journalists/bloggers/Twitterers are afire with enthusiasm for the rapper. Tom Breihan tweets that he is “better than Divine Styler, if I knew who that was.” Jessica Hopper has not called him a misogynist. Noz has posted fifteen sound files and gotten into heated arguments in his comments section.

September 24th, 2009

Okay, do you really need back-story on Raekwon? You know all this shit already. If you need structure in your life, insert any other mag’s intro here and just read the fucking interview. You know we’re not getting paid for this, right?

August 4th, 2009

Music is not worth listening to anymore. Yet, it is still worth hating. The question becomes, how to listen to enough music to hate on with the least amount of effort (yes, even less effort than being an online reviewer). Solution: Amazon.com, which in its futile effort to sell music gives the somewhat motivated Hater […]